Circleback YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Circleback went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Ali HaghaniFounder
Kevin JacynaFounder

What Circleback does

Circleback helps teams get the most out of every conversation with best-in-class AI-powered meeting notes, action items, automations, and search. For example, Circleback can automatically identify feature requests that come up in product demo calls and create Linear tasks for each of them, or update your CRM with customer details after a sales call. Before Circleback, Ali led the first integration of LLMs into the Stripe support product and Kevin worked on predictive analytics at Tableau as a senior software engineer.

Circleback's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Circleback, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Circleback

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered meeting notes and automations

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build Circleback, an AI tool that listens to meetings and automatically creates accurate notes, action items, and relevant automations like updating your CRM or creating tasks in tools like Linear. It helps teams focus on conversations instead of manual data entry and keeps workflows up-to-date without extra effort.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Circleback will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where both founders live and work, and it's where we have access to talent and customers. It's also YC's location, which makes sense logistically and network-wise.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Circleback YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Circleback's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Circleback would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.